This poetics seminar, designed for students in the English Department's Area Program in Poetry Writing but open to other students on a space-available basis, is a close readings course for serious makers and readers of poems. Seminar topics vary by semester. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

For advanced students with prior experience in writing poetry. Student work is discussed in class and in individual conferences. Reading in contemporary poetry is also assigned. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

Directed poetry writing project for students in the English Department's Undergraduate Area Program in Poetry Writing, leading to completion of a manuscript of poems. Both courses are required for students in the Distinguished Majors Program. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

In this course, Global Commerce in Culture and Society students will complete a 25-page research paper, as the culminating work of the major. Each student will choose readings relevant to his or her project and present them to the class, leading the discussion.

This is the capstone seminar for students in the Security and Justice track of Global Studies.

This course is the required Capstone Seminar in the Global Environments and Sustainability track of Global Studies

Students will produce a report providing an analysis of the problem, the policy options available, and their action recommendations. Students will improve their ability to work in teams and hone their written and oral presentation skills.

Reading and research under the direction of a faculty member. Students must obtain approval from a faculty advisor to approve and direct the independent study. Final approval by the Director of Undergraduate Programs is also required.

Writing of a thesis of approximately 50 written pages undertaken in the spring semester of the fourth year by archaeology majors who have been accepted into the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Distinguished Majors Program.Prerequisite: acceptence into DMP program

Covers foundations and applications of NLP with a focus on the most popular form of unstructured data ¿ text. Convert source texts into structure-preserving analytical form and then apply information theory, NLP tools, and vector-based methods to explore language models, topic models, sentiment analyses, and GenAI techniques. Focus is on unsupervised methods to explore cognitive patterns in texts, with real-world examples and demonstrations.